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Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

Mrs Floweryapron — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:49:05 -0000

Come over to my Myspace love, we are all of a certain age.

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

daniel — Sat, 26 May 2007 05:51:02 -0000

y cant i put one of these music players on my myspace?

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

billy — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:11:29 -0000

how many people has had it with this website??????????????????????????????????????????????

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

billy — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:10:51 -0000

how many people has had sex with this website??????????????????????????????????????????????

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

billy — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:08:19 -0000

hold your tounge and say to your self apple and then spell I CUP and then say pretty colors down your shirt! U SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

Viajero — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:10:34 -0000

Frank, I've been also looking for an alternative to MySpace, which is really pretty low-end and crass in general. This comes after just having spend (wasted?) hours creating my own page over the past few days (and thank you Pete and Kelvin for the useful info here on your site).

I kinda got sucked in and hyper-focused, but after perusing around, I see that the demographic is teens and early 20's largely, and while that's cute and good, I don't belong here! You throw Murdoch's involvement in (I had forgotten), and I'm on my way out.

I hope there's an easy way to migrate my "content", but to...where. Here's a list of social networking sites from Wikipedia. I'm open to suggestions. I've checked a few out, I can't say I've found a one the feels like a good home.

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

Frank Fiske — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:58:46 -0000

MySpace is an evil evil website...Everyone needs to simply boycott MySpace completely and end Rupert Murdoch`s plan to take over the Internet and end free speech on the Internet and have everything on the Internet controlled by Fox News..MySpace deletes profiles without reason or warning and they do as they please and they are pissing off a lot of users by they non-caring attitude towards people in general!! Lots of MySpace users are now fed up with this horrible website and are looking for a decent alternative, just like I am!!

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

fatty — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:30:20 -0000

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Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

fatty — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:29:36 -0000

u suck

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

Thomas Linder — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:22:50 -0000

Great research.

It's worth noting that Photobucket started infiltrating MySpace in 2003, YouTube in 2005, and Slide in 2006.

I suspect that over the next couple years we'll see a greater percentage of pages that have video and slideshows.

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:27:17 -0000

lilian,

We actually have a list, I think. Not sure how much of this data we should give away, though. ;)

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

Frank Fulchiero — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:38:19 -0000

I'd be interested in hearing about other popular music players also. I'm looking for something that students and faculty could embed in Blogger, that is a little more "serious" than MySpace, in our effort to bring a little Web 2.0 to higher ed. There's more to the web than MySpace!

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

lilian — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:54:27 -0000

interesting article, but you don't talk about other music players... Aren't there any serious alternative to MySpace ? How can alternatives be found if you don't talk about it and MySpace will ALWAYS lead ?? You just enhance the distribution channel ...

I don't believe MySpace will always lead the market,i think as people become more used to the possibilities of the web and get exposed to alternatives, they'll leave MySpace for services more specialized and more adapted to their needs.

Last.fm (the social music player) just released an online flash player. right now it's only on their site, but i believe that if the release a version people can embed in their personal website and blogs it would a killer-app

it would be very nice to have a comparison of the different music players available...

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

Jawad (Shuzak) — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:57:04 -0000

The reason why MySpace will always lead this market is because they have a huge existing distribution channel.

If I had the world's Operating System, it wouldn't make an inch of a different if I couldn't distribute it. This is why we use Windows XP and not Linux. All great products need a distribution channel. I was talking to a few startup founders yesterday (yourep.com and vplyr.com) and they both are having difficulty taking their product to the masses due to this single reason.

Re: Why the MySpace Music Player Can’t Be Beaten

Pete Cashmore — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:01:51 -0000

Kelvin,

As you can tell, I pretty much rewrote this one - I wanted it to be more digestible and less academic. One thing I'm still not crazy about is quoting of "active" profiles without disclosing what active means: I'd rather we just used random samples for everything, but I let it pass this time. Hopefully you also agree with my conclusions. ;)

And even though a few players dominate each market, it's also interesting to note that owning 1% of a market that consists of tens of millions of people is still good going. I guess that's the long tail at work.